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Emma Witmer

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Why Barefoot Beach Remains the Favorite Among Locals

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By Emma Witmer
| Gulfshore Life (Bonita Springs, Florida)
From the Editors: Best of the Gulfshore 2026 Category: Best Locals' Beach “Don’t forget to check under the car,” my Bonita Springs-born sister-in-law calls out—the words almost lyrical, heard and said on so many days in the parking lot at Barefoot Beach Preserve at the edge of Naples and Bonita. I stoop to the asphalt to find a gopher tortoise sleeping beneath the bumper. State-designated as threatened, the terrestrial turtles have lived at Barefoot for decades.
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Photography Comes Into Focus Across Southwest Florida

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By Emma Witmer, Zahra Khan
| Gulfshore Life (Bonita Springs, Florida)
From the Editors | Best of the Gulfshore 2026 Category: Best Visual Direction Naples photographer Lisette Morales spent a year with her lens trained on the Navarro family. They’ve been performing Danza Azteca Guadalupana, a ceremonial Indigenous and Mexican American dance, for nearly three decades in Southwest Florida, but few know their story.
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Naples Art Institute Brings New Voices to American Modernism

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By Emma Witmer
| Gulfshore Life (Bonita Springs, Florida)
There’s a story playing out along the walls of Naples Art Institute (NAI)—an expansive display of modern American artwork tracing the early days of European-influenced abstraction to the emergence of a distinctly American school. But it’s not the version most have heard. In place of de Koonings, O’Keeffes or Calders, are Brownes, Cramers and Kinzingers—names often overlooked in the telling of modern American art, yet instrumental in its shaping.
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